RE: Coupe or Sedan? MAHONEY! (was PARTING OUT 74 HORNET...)

["Jim Blair" <carnuck@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

A: I've had several 4 dr hard tops. '66 Plymouth (Fury IIRC) with suicide 
rear doors, '68 T-bird, '66 Pontiac Grande Parisienne and Strato Chief, '66 
Impala, '58/9 Impala


From: "John W Rosa" <JohnRosa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Coupe or Sedan? MAHONEY! (was PARTING OUT 74 HORNET...)
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 08:05:49 -0500
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Simple- a hardtop-convertible!

I'm sorry I even brought the subject up, as after
I sent the note, I decided to try and find a
definition... and found there isn't one....certainly
no more definitive than any 'MuscleCar' definition.

Now, NYS is calling your hatchback a sedan because
AMC did. My window sticker called it just that- a
'hatchback sedan'.

In my minor research yesterday, I found indications
that lean this way: It's partly about the stationary
B-pillar...and whether the car has one or not.

<but not always>

Hornets have a stationary pillar behind the door,
ahead of the quarter window. Most four doors do, thus
we tend to look at a four-door and say 'sedan' right
away. (Anyone know of a 4-door exception?)

The absence of a B-pillar tends to mean it's a coupe.
But it seems our own Matador is a glaring example of
non-conformity. The 71-73 two-door has no pillar, but
is called a 'two-door sedan'. The 74-78, with opera
windows installed, has a B-pillar (or does that not
count?), yet is called a 'coupe'.

Me thinks this is a question for one John Mahoney.

Batter up!


John